Community art studio

A creative incubator where artists with and without disabilities gather to connect, create and exhibit. A multi-generational community that offers studio space for adults, summer classes for kids and workshops for all. The space is also available for sublease for artists groups and performances.

BATC offers a variety of workshops, trainings, open studios and individual and group art therapy designed for anyone seeking to get closer to their own creativity. With five competent and trained art therapists on staff at the Collective we are able to offer to the community a full range of art therapy services and at affordable costs.

Third spaces are in-between places where teacher-student scripts intersect, creating the potential for authentic interaction and a shift in what counts as knowledge. This paper describes a unique community-university initiative: a third space storefront classroom for postsecondary students in professional education programs, which also functions as a community art studio for the surrounding neighborhood. This approach to professional education requires an innovative combination of theory, methods, and materials as enacted by the professionals involved and performed by the students.